Parallel install 4.3 and 4.2.2

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:53:55AM +0200, Martin Jenewein wrote:
> Hi
> 
> is it possible to install 4.3.x parallel to 4.2.2. which is
> already installed?
> 
> Any hints for me? 
> 

Short answer: no

Long answer: yes, but it is not easy and may cause some unexpected
problems. 

You need to install them to different prefixes and it probably will fail if
one of them is in a 'system' location (or, for that matter in the same
location as gtk).

For instance, I have 4.2 in /opt/lunar/xfce4 and svn version in /opt/xfce4-cvs
(hmm, that needs a name change ;-).

Then you should set some variables to make use of one or the other. This works
for me:

 PATH=/opt/xfce4-cvs/bin:$PATH
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/xfce4-cvs/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/xfce4-cvs/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

 export PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

No guarantees, and if it breaks you get to keep the pieces ;-)

	Jasper